The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1887-01-22
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beer and liquor bottles.
Sir Richard Sutton, the English
breeder of Short-horned cattle, has lost
his valuable herd of Jerseys through
that fell agency, Heterogeneous.
The sting of humble bee contains
only one-fiftieth part of drop of poi
son, and why boy jumps up and down
and takes on SO about it is more than
medical science can explain. 1851
The proprietor of celebrated res
taurant out West is described by q
local journal as being, in appearance
and dress, a combination of an English
lord, United States Senator, an AM
erican poet and a French painter.
daniel Webster's Marshfield estate
is now owned by Walter Hall, of Bos-
ton. 1t contains four hundred and
fifty acres and supports fifty cows, five
horses, two yoke of oxen and several
head of young stock. --BoSton Journal.
"A new poet sings ''The Whistling
Buoy is Anchored at Sea" The
whistling girl, however, continues to
float about in fancy free to the envy
of the boys who can not properly
quicker to whistle a tune. - Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Archibald Ford has met nine diff
ferent Kings and Queens, but when he
walks up to peanut stand with his
nickel he gets no better measure than
those of us who have simply gazed on
the coat-tail buttons of United States
Senator. Detroit Free Press.
Probably the largest grape arbor
in Central North Carolina is a Soup
pernong arbor on q plantation in
Sumter County. 1t has seventeen
hundred posts, covers nearly an acre
OF ground, and every year it bears an
abundance of Scuppernongs. .,1
The Boston Record throws off the
following editorial enigma: If five
generations fed on canvass-back and
terrapin are required to produce a
Maryland beauty, how many centuries
OF beans and brown bread arc needed
for the evolution of Boston BELIEF"
A spotter in Guelph, Can, swore
that he had drank ginger-ale and
whisky in a certain saloon. At the
trial the bottle was produced, the wit.
ness tasted the contents and swore that
they were ginger-ale and whisky aud
then the defendant proved that the
drink was ginger-ale and pepper sauce
and was acquitted.
People who are quick to 'take up
remarks and to resent supposed insults
are kept pretty busy by the world Ar
old man, who was before Judge Cow
ing in New York, day or two ago
admitted that he had been arrested
about one hundred and thirty times on
charges of assault, and explained that
he was mot going to let anybody call
him names. IN. y. Mail fa 7e
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the burial
place of Washington Irving, which is
directly across the Hudson from Nyack,
N. Y, has become so crowded that the
adjacent property has been purchased
to enlarge the grounds. The addition
is forty-one acre lot on the north
side, and cost thirty thousand dollars
The cemetery is visited by thousands
of strangers every year Troy Times.
Samuel Gilbert, of Georgetown,
N. j., stored one hundred and fifty
bushels of potatoes in the attic of his
little house preparatory to barreling
them. The other night while his fami-
y
and the potatoes came down on them,
breaking Mr.. Gilbert's arm and Mrs.
Gilberts leg, fracturing her shoulder,
and injuring a daughters arm so thai
1T will have to be amputated.- y.
SIN. fe#1 eaHH 34I
"A laborer while digging well at
Norristown, Pa, struck duicksand
and became fastened. He called for
help, and ropes fastened to windlass
were lowered, but rs they pulled he
cried that they were tearing him limb
from limb. He was finally rescued by
means Of graphing hooks placed IN
der his feet, a crib having been lowered
around him. When extricated he had
been in the quicksand seventeen hours.
-NOrT'istOa0R Herald. HIHa y
There is q valley in Chautauqua
County, N. Y, called "No-God hol,
low, and this is the way il came by
its name: AN evangelist went into the
valley and worked very earnestly for
some weeks, and apparently without
any good results. One day in speak
ing to one of the residents of the place
he said: 81 do not believe there is a
God in Chenango valleyr' This was
picked up, and since then the place has
been known as "No-God hollow. ~
Buffalo Express.
A sixty year-old widower, OF
Albany, N. Y, who has selected 0
young woman of twenty-six years foI
his second wife, was chaffed so much
by friends about the great expense he
was liable to incur in taking so young
wife that he thought it would not be
amiss tosound the mind of his intended,
and did so. She named over the mum.
Der of dresses she would need and
capped the climax by insisting that the
first two years must be spentin Europe.
The match is now off. -AltGng Jour.
nal.
Gratifying evidence ofthe advance
of woman in England appears in the
statement. that of about a thousand
students, from the Liverpool region,
examined in science and art at South
Kensington, more than two hundred
were women. Two young girls passed
in magnetism and electricity, twelve in
inorganic chemistry, and two in aeri.
culture. One lady, who passed the
elementary examination last year in
machine construction and drawing,
was again successful in a more adj.
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